Anthropic now reserves /plan as a UI command, so the Skill tool refuses to
dispatch it. Rename the project's plan skill to planner, update the symlink
under .claude/skills/, and adjust references in CLAUDE.md, DESIGN.md,
skills/README.md, and the cross-references between brainstorm / implement /
audit / fieldtest / fieldtester. Plan files themselves (docs/plans/*.md)
keep their name — only the skill ID changes.
The four-phase debug process and the five-phase fieldtest process
each lived twice — once in SKILL.md (orchestrator-facing) and once
in the dispatched agent's file (subagent-facing). The orchestrator
does not execute these phases; the subagent does. Duplicating them
in SKILL.md just bloated the orchestrator's main context with bytes
that only the subagent ever needs.
SKILL.md now carries only what the orchestrator must consult at
dispatch time: trigger gating, Iron Law as headline, the carrier
contract, the produced handoff, and cross-references. Iron Law in
operational form, full process, Common Rationalisations, Red Flags,
and (for fieldtest) the spec template now live solely in the agent
file. Net −160 LOC across the skills tree.
CLAUDE.md pointer for 'Bug fixes — TDD, always' updated to reflect
that the substantive discipline lives in the agent file, not the
skill file.
New skill that runs after a clean audit at milestone close. Picks
2-4 real-world programming tasks within the milestone's scope,
implements each in the AIL Surface form (.ailx), runs the binaries,
and writes a friction-and-bug spec to docs/specs/<date>-fieldtest-
<milestone>.md.
The dispatched agent (ailang-fieldtester) is restricted to DESIGN.md
plus the public examples/ corpus — crates/, runtime/, bench/ are
forbidden reads. This simulates a downstream LLM author who has only
the specification, which is the empirical complement to brainstorm's
prospective application of the LLM-utility criterion.
Findings classify as bug / friction / spec_gap / working, each with
a one-line downstream recommendation (debug / plan / ratify /
carry-on). The orchestrator dispatches the follow-ups; fieldtest
does not self-resolve.
Files:
- skills/fieldtest/SKILL.md
- skills/fieldtest/agents/ailang-fieldtester.md
- .claude/skills/fieldtest, .claude/agents/fieldtest (discovery
symlinks)
- skills/README.md updated (skill table → 6, pipeline ASCII,
agent roster, discovery list)
All six existing agents (implementer, tester, architect, bencher,
docwriter, debugger) restructured into the same superpowers-derived
layout the SKILL.md files use: Iron Law, Carrier contract, Standing
reading list, Status protocol (DONE / DONE_WITH_CONCERNS /
NEEDS_CONTEXT / BLOCKED), Common Rationalisations, Red Flags. Agents
now know about docs/specs/<milestone>.md and docs/plans/<iteration>.md
but do not open them directly — context curation lives at the skill
level (controller hands the agent task_text, hypothesis, etc.).
Implementer carries TDD as an independent discipline layer, mirroring
the superpowers split between subagent-driven-development (outer loop)
and test-driven-development (inner loop). RED-first applies even when
a plan task forgot to script the failing test.
Debugger scope corrected: RED-first only, hands GREEN to implement
mini-mode. Previously the agent self-applied the fix, which
contradicted skills/debug/SKILL.md Phase 4. The skill is the source
of truth; the agent now matches it.
Two new named reviewer agents:
- ailang-spec-reviewer: did the diff match the task text?
- ailang-quality-reviewer: is the diff well-built? (only after spec
is compliant)
Both replace the ad-hoc general-purpose dispatch in skills/implement
Step 2.3 and 2.4. With named agents, AILang quality conventions are
amortised across dispatches instead of being re-stated inline per
prompt.
skills/implement/SKILL.md updated to dispatch the new reviewers.
skills/README.md agent roster expanded; conventions clarified to
state that agents do not open plan/spec files directly.
The skills are functionally complete and standalone — superpowers
references were attribution-only. Removed so a reader without the
superpowers plugin loaded isn't sent chasing dead links.
Plus: .claude/skills/<name> symlinks so Claude Code's Skill tool can
invoke them by name (analogous to the existing .claude/agents/
symlinks). Discovery section in skills/README.md updated to cover
both symlink sets.
agents/ contained only README.md after the 2026-05-09 migration. The
roster information is more naturally located alongside the skills it
points into. skills/README.md is now the single index (skill table,
pipeline diagram, agent roster, discovery, conventions, how-to-add).
CLAUDE.md updated: code-layout entry consolidated, @-reference points
to skills/README.md.
ailang-implementer/-tester -> skills/implement/agents/
ailang-architect/-bencher/-docwriter -> skills/audit/agents/
ailang-debugger -> skills/debug/agents/
agents/ now contains only README.md (rewritten in next commit as
roster of skill-bound agents).
Brummel